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An Essential Thank You from us, your Georgia Craft Breweries. Schoolhouse has had the honor to work with 25 of the most amazing groups of people to make this video expressing our gratitude for everything you, our friends and families, have done to get us through these trying times. Please take the time to watch and share with everyone you know.

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Beersmith Features You Need to be Using Right Now!

Beersmith has so many features that it can be almost overwhelming. This program is so robust it has been called the photoshop of brewing software. So, where do you start to get the most bang for the buck? That is what we take a dive-in to in this video. The Beersmith features we look at are:

How to make a proper Yeast Starter
The Mash Calculator
The perfect Brew Timer
Sessions and how to keep ideal brewing notes
Add-ons a huge database of brewing information

These Tips and Tricks for using Beersmith will make your brew days so much easier.

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In this video, we look at All Grain Brewing for Beginners. We focus on the Mashing and Sparging procedures for all-grain brewing.
Schoolhouse Brewing is here to help. In this article, we are going to explain step by step everything you will need to step up your hobby and move to all-grain. It is not that difficult just a little time and a few extra pieces of equipment.

Pros
you will get a more consistent beer
more choices of ingredients
complete creative control
less expensive ingredients

Cons
More equipment
More time needed to brew

What equipment will you need

Hot Liquor Tank (HLT)
10-gallon Water Cooler
Ball Valve Conversion Kit
4-6 feet of High-Temperature Hose
Sparge Arm

Mash Tun (with false bottom)
10-gallon Water Cooler
Ball Valve Conversion Kit
False Bottom
4-6 feet of High-Temperature Hose

7.5 Gallon Brew Kettle

A Propane Burner

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All Grain Home Brewing. Home Brew All Grain Equipment.

So, you have been brewing extract kits for a while, and you are having so much fun. You like your beer, and so does everyone else is telling you it is good. However, you taste some other homebrewers beers, go to breweries, and see all the different grains you can use to make beer. These factors have you inspired to move to all-grain brewing. But, where do you start, what equipment do you need, what are the pros and cons of moving to an all-grain home brewery.

Schoolhouse Brewing is here to help. In this article, we are going to explain step by step everything you will need to step up your hobby and move to all-grain. It is not that difficult just a little time and a few extra pieces of equipment.

Pros
you will get a more consistent beer
more choices of ingredients
complete creative control
less expensive ingredients
Cons
More equipment
More time needed to brew

What equipment will you need
Hot Liquor Tank (HLT)
10-gallon Water Cooler
Ball Valve Conversion Kit
4-6 feet of High-Temperature Hose
Sparge Arm
Mash Tun (with false bottom)
10-gallon Water Cooler
Ball Valve Conversion Kit
False Bottom
4-6 feet of High-Temperature Hose
7.5 Gallon Brew Kettle
A Propane Burner

The first piece of equipment is the HLT or Hot Liquor Tank that you will need to make. The HLT will is used in the sparging process. Sparging is just the act of using higher temperature water to rinse the grains of any residual sugars and dilute the Mash liquid. All the HLT is a 10-gallon water cooler converted with a Ball Valve. The plastic valve that the cooler comes with is straightforward to remove. There is a locking nut in the inside that easily unscrews, keep the silicone washer because you might need it later in the build.

Now replace the plastic valve with the ball valve conversion kit. This kit should fit snug on to the cooler if not use the silicone washer that you removed earlier in the conversion.

Attach the High-Temperature hose to the barbed end of the ball lock on the outside of the cooler.

The Sparge Arm will connect to the hose when you are brewing later.

Let's move on to making the Mash Tun. The Mash tun is a giant tea bag that you will use to extract all the sugars and malt flavors into the kettle that you will boil. Take the second water cooler and remove the plastic valve and replace it with the conversion kit just like you did before.

However, this time, you will add a stainless steel barbed fitting on the inside of the cooler. And place the stainless steel false bottom in the cooler.

Use a small piece of silicone tube between the two barbs inside the cooler.

Attach another piece of high temp hosing to the outside barb of the cooler. This tubing will be used to transfer the hot mash to the boil kettle.

This is all the equipment you will need to construct to make the move to all-grain brewing. In our next article, we will go through the steps of Mashing and Sparging. Cheers.

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Home Brewing Water Chemistry for Dummies.

An up updated video of how to use Beersmith 3 to calculate and adjust your homebrew water chemistry for homebrewing. In This Video, we will explore how to simplify Water Chemistry and Water Profiles for your Homebrew.

Water is one of the essential ingredients of homebrewed beer. But, getting to know what all the chemicals that you can use in your brew day can be daunting. That is why we at Schoolhouse Beer and Brewing shows you how to use two different brewing software packages (Beersmith and Brewers Friends) to take the sting out of the information. We dive into everything from Gypsum, Epsom Salt, Calcium Carbonate, and all the others.


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Get ready to learn how to make hard seltzer at home. When making a seltzer you can make as many flavors as you would like. Like sparkling water, seltzer is extremely easy to make at home.
The Ingredients that are used to make Hard Seltzer, Spiked Seltzer or alcoholic seltzer:
4# of Dextrose
4 oz Yeast Nutrients
Yeast EC1118
Flavoring
Fermenter

Hard Seltzer Homebrew is fun and you can easly.

Howto: Hard Seltzer Made Easy

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Every journey of a million miles starts with just one step. That is no different for what the owners of Schoolhouse Brewing. Justin and Thomas took a chance by leaving the middle school classroom and chasing a dream to open a brewery in Marietta, Georgia. This dream came with being named the best new brewery in Georgia.

Schoolhouse Brewing takes an unorthodox approach to what it means to be a brewery. Schoolhouse Brewing have many core believes that Thomas and Justin hold incredibly close.

First, Schoolhouse Brewing is a rotating brewery, which means that the Head Brewer Thomas Monti has decided that they will never brew the same beer twice. With this approach, Schoolhouse Brewing ensures that every beer is always New, Fresh, and Local. Within, the first year Schoolhouse Brewing has brewed over 100 unique beers.

Second, Schoolhouse Brewing is an open-source brewery. If you like a beer that Schoolhouse has brewed, they will give you a scaled-down clone homebrew recipe that you can make at home. Not only will they give you the recipe, but there is also a full homebrew shop inside the brewery. And, do not fear if you are new to the process, the staff will be more than happy to guide you through your first brew.

Lastly, Schoolhouse Brewing wants you to know that our brewery is "Where Education Meets Recess." From the new craft beer drinker or if you have been enjoying craft beer for years, we want you always to be comfortable to learn more.

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In This Episode of Grains to Glass, we look at the basics of how to wash yeast. We talk about how to wash yeast from a slurry, and how to reuse the washed yeast. Yeast washing is an easy way to save a little money and also reuse the yeast that is still viable. Yeast Washing happens after primary fermentation when the trub and yeast flocculate to the bottom of the beer.


Yeast Washing Steps

1. Boil one gallon of water for 15 minutes.
During the boil, sanitize the glass jars and funnel.

2. Let the water cool for a couple minutes on the stove, and then pour into the large glass jar.

3. Place the large jar in the refrigerator to cool.

4. Siphon the beer off the yeast from the primary to a secondary fermenter. Place the airlock back on the empty fermenter while it waits.

5. Take the large jar of water out of the refrigerator and let it come up to room temperature.

6. Pour the large jar of water into the fermenter, place the airlock back on, and shake it.

7. Let the fermenter sit for 20 minutes so the trub can separate from the yeast and fall to the bottom. The yeast will be a milky white color, while the trub will be a darker brown.

8. Pour the top layer (yeast and some beer) back into the large jar, trying to leave the bottom layer of trub behind.
Cap the large jar and shake. Let it sit for 20 minutes.

9. Similar to the pour from the fermenter, carefully pour the liquid from the large jar into the four-pint size mason jars, trying to leave behind the dark matter on the bottom.

10. Cap the mason jars and place them in the refrigerator. The yeast will settle to the bottom over the next few days.